Healthcare Application guide - Philips Lighting

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Corridors
For a hospital, which is often open 24 hours a day, corridors and
circulation areas are the arteries of the building. They link the different
areas together logistically. Patients and visitors who are on their way to
a doctor or specific department will naturally benefit from a brightly
illuminated corridor rather than a dark one and specific lighting can be
used to optimise guidance.
The lighting should focus on guidance,
safety and reassurance, by using diffused,
homogeneous lighting, avoiding sharp contrasts
and dark spots. For corridors where patients
are wheeled along on trolleys, it must be taken
into consideration that high levels of brightness
can be extremely uncomfortable when they are
looking upwards.
Smarter corridors – daylight regulation
Corridors provide a perfect opportunity for
energy saving: At daytime when the corridors
are in full use, lighting can be complemented
with daylight integration using sensing
technology, saving energy while maintaining
a comfortable ambience. After-hours, when
corridors are less frequently used, the lighting
can be dimmed to a lower, but comfortable
level for orientation, and when a person
is detected it will fade up to normal levels
unnoticeably. For internal corridors that are
part of patient wards, daylight rhythms can
improve the perception and wellbeing of users,
by using dynamic lighting to bring in the positive
effects of natural daylight, and create a sense
of wellbeing.